A personal memoir of what Alistair Cooke, after arriving in New York City during the Great Depression, found in America and of the institutions, the landscape and the people that he came to admire ...

Letter from America was Alistair Cooke's weekly radio broadcast that ran continuously for 58 years on the BBC, from 1946 to 2004. Cooke had set himself a challenge that seemed deceptively simple: to ...

LONDON (AP) _ Alistair Cooke, the broadcaster who epitomized highbrow television as host of ``Masterpiece Theatre'' and whose ``Letter from America'' was a radio fixture in Britain for 58 years, has ...

LONDON, March 30 -- Alistair Cooke, who died at midnight Tuesday in New York at age 95, was fond of citing George Bernard Shaw's dictum that the United States and Britain are "two nations divided by a ...